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Alex asks Julie on a date – it is touching. The plant is learning how to focus on constraints.

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When you’ve finished the bottleneck parts, you can go back to what you were doing before.

The right to work on something outside of the constraint is earned.

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P170 – All she can do is say no, right?

P171 – “And about ninety percent of the current overdues have parts that flow through one or both of the bottleneck operations.

P172 – “I don’t want to see either of you working on something not on that list.

P173 – “Why the hell isn’t that machine working?” I ask him.

P174 – It turns out, as Bob explains to me, that the parts they were waiting for at the NCX-10 have been sitting there for about a week.

P175 – So by continuing to run the non-bottleneck parts, this guy was actually interfering with our ability to get an order out the door and make money.”

P176 – We’re holding fifteen-minute meetings with everyone working in the plant, both foremen and hourly people.

P177 – When you’ve finished the bottleneck parts, you can go back to what you were doing before.